The leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost.
Autumn is getting deeper, and many people are feeling the impact of climate change on their bodies.
For example, is your throat okay?
Many friends around me have "invariably" developed symptoms such as fire, sore throat, dry lungs, and bitter mouth.
Although the "combination pattern" and severity of these symptoms vary, they are all very uncomfortable and affect daily life and mood.
Today, let's talk about a kind of "fairy fruit" that clears heat and moistens the lungs and improves pharyngeal sound: Luo Han Guo.
Medicinal and edible value
Monk fruit, also known as longevity fruit, has a high nutritional value. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Luo Han Guo is cool, sweet and sour, and has the functions of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, opening the pharynx and opening the throat, and smoothing the intestines, and is often used to treat hot and dry cough in the lungs, sore throat and loss of voice, dry intestines and constipation.
Usually use it to soak in water to drink to clear the throat, promote saliva secretion, and relieve uncomfortable symptoms such as dry mouth and throat.
Drinking monk fruit soaked in water can relieve lung heat and dryness, and can also reduce the occurrence of heat symptoms. It also has a preventive and alleviating effect on symptoms such as cough and wheezing, phlegm and dry cough without phlegm.
Monk fruit has the effect of clearing away heat and diarrhea, can moisten the intestines and laxative, and has a good effect on relieving intestinal dryness and constipation.
Among most anti-smog health drinks, monk fruit also has a place, because it has a certain relieving effect on respiratory symptoms caused by haze, such as cough and sore throat.
Although monk fruit is good, it is still necessary to pay attention to drinking, and people with a weak spleen and stomach should use it with caution.
Food and drink tasting
Drill a small hole at each end of the monk fruit, put it in a teacup, pour boiling water, and soon it will be a cup of sweet and fragrant drink.
You can also peel off the skin and soak it in water, if the taste is too strong, you can break a small piece each time.
There are many ways to eat monk fruit, in addition to making tea, you can also make soup.
Here are a few dishes made with monk fruit for you to choose from:
Monk fruit ginseng tea
1 monk fruit, 6 slices of American ginseng.
First, wash and crush the monk fruit, put it in a pot with American ginseng slices, brew it with boiling water, cover and simmer for 5 minutes, filter out the tea soup, and then you can drink it.
It is suitable for people with sore throat, itchy throat, dry mouth, dry cough and less phlegm, and less qi and fatigue.
Monk fruit appetizer
1 monk fruit, 6 pieces of hawthorn, 1 roselle.
First, wash the monk fruit, crush it, put it in the pot with hawthorn and roselle, add boiling water to brew, cover and stuff for 5 minutes, filter out the tea soup, and then you can drink.
It is suitable for people with sore throat, loss of appetite, indigestion and emotional stress.
Monk fruit pork lung soup
1 monk fruit, 150g of pork lungs, appropriate amount of salt.
Wash the monk fruit and pig lungs separately, cut the pork lungs into small pieces, and squeeze out the foam in them; Put an appropriate amount of water in the pot, add monk fruit and pork lungs, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and cook for 1 hour, add an appropriate amount of salt to taste.
It clears the throat and diaphragm, nourishes the lung yin, and is suitable for people with lung yin deficiency and dry cough without phlegm.
Source: People's Daily Science Popularization